We understand that being injured and not being able to work is difficult, not just on you but on your entire family. When a work-related injury occurs, worker's compensation coverage can fill in the gap by providing lost wage payments and medical coverage.
Worker's compensation is available for employees who are injured at work during the normal course of their employment. However, there are very specific steps that an employee (and employer) must follow in order to activate these benefits.
Worker's compensation benefits cover the medical expenses related to the work injury. Workers comp benefits also provide certain lost wage payments until you are able to return to work. There are times when lump-sum settlement agreements can be made between the employee and the employer as well.
In every worker's compensation case there are two sides fighting each other; the employer's insurance company, which wants to stop or limit your benefits, and the employee who wants to keep their benefits until they are well enough to return to work. Frequently, the employer's insurance company will argue that the injured worker is fully recovered and ready to return to work, even though that is far from the truth. Such arguments often succeed because the worker, buried under worker's compensation forms, paperwork and hearings, simply doesn't know what to do or how to properly prepare for and respond to such arguments. This all comes as a shock to the injured worker, because all along the insurance company has been sending them to its doctors and acting like it was going to be with the worker all the way. Only then, and all too late, does the injured worker realize that the insurance company doctor was and always has been working for the insurance company and not for them. A good worker's compensation attorney will help you avoid this disaster by assisting you in preparing your own case early on, so you are not left with the case your insurance company wants you to have.
Without an attorney, the injured worker is fighting the insurance company on their own. Our Pennsylvania worker's compensation attorneys will work with you to get the maximum benefits available to you. Our worker's comp lawyers have handled such cases throughout Pennsylvania, including in York, Dauphin and Lancaster counties.
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If you have been injured at work, do not fight the injury and your employer alone. Let us build your case, deal with the insurance company, and help you get the benefits you need so that you and your family can concentrate on healing and getting back to work when you are able to do so.
For effective guidance and advocacy on worker's compensation issues, turn to the experienced worker's compensation lawyers of Menges & McLaughlin, P.C. With offices in York, Lancaster, Hanover and Mechanicsburg, our Pennsylvania worker's compensation attorneys can help you. To schedule your initial consultation, call 717-843-8046, toll free at 866-4645297 or simply contact us. We accept major credit cards for your convenience.
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